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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Red-figure Attributed to the Achilles Painter · Lekythos · ca. 440 BCE
Lekythos. Greek, Attic. Classical. Classification: Vases. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1907. Gallery 159.

Attribution History

Current
Met Museum catalogue
Source: met_import

Bibliography

8 references
Books & Monographs
Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010) (2010) — 140-143 (COLOUR OF BD AND PARTS)
Cohen, B. (ed.), The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006) (2006) — 228-229, NO.65 (COLOUR OF PART, PART)
Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Leukes Likythoi tou Zoographou tou Achilleos sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio (Athens, 1998) (1998) — 94, FIG.23 (PARTS)
Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997) (1997) — FIGS.5D, 6D, COLOUR PL.3A, PL.150 (BD, PROFILE)
Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923) (1923) — FIG.536
Fairbanks, A., Athenian Lekythoi (New York, 1914) (1914) — II, PL.39
Catalogues & Reference Works
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963) (1963) — 1001.209
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925) (1925) — 379.40

Provenance

2 recorded events
Discovery
Eretria, Euboea, Greece
bapd
First recorded
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Current location
Shape
Technique
Period
Classical
Date
ca. 440 BCE
Culture
Greek, Attic
Attribution
Attributed
Findspot
Eretria, Euboea, Greece
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Number
07.286.42
Image Source
met_cc0
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